Fuzhou (help·info) (Chinese: 福州; pinyin: Fúzhōu; Wade-Giles: Fu-chou; Foochow Romanized: Hók-ciŭ; EFEO: Fou-Tcheou; also seen as Foochow, Fuchow or Fuh-chau in earlier Western documents) is the capital and the largest prefecture-level city of Fujian (福建) province, People's Republic of China. It is also referred to as Rongcheng (榕城) which means "city of banyan trees."

It is the capital of the province, and is situated on the north bank of the estuary of Fujian's largest river, the Min River, which gives access to the interior and to the neighboring provinces of Jiangxi and Zhejiang.

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Fuzhou has more skyscrapers than i thought...

there's also a west lake in Fuzhou, it's probably as beautiufl as the one in Hangzhou, but ihave never seen its pics.

The problem with most Chinese cities is: They all look more or less the same. If you remove the Chinese wirtings you wouldn't know you are in a Chinese city at all.

Too posh, too little character = mediocrity!

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The problem with most Chinese cities is: They all look more or less the same. If you remove the Chinese wirtings you wouldn't know you are in a Chinese city at all.

Too posh, too little character = mediocrity!

The problem is, most cities in the world is like that, except some of the most famous ones. Most European towns look the same too! It is charming to someone, but they look pretty boring to me. Same goes with many Chinese cities except some. But a city's characters do not only show through its appearance. Many of the times the charm of a city comes from its unique culture, people, and mood.

The problem is, most cities in the world is like that, except some of the most famous ones. Most European towns look the same too! It is charming to someone, but they look pretty boring to me. Same goes with many Chinese cities except some. But a city's characters do not only show through its appearance. Many of the times the charm of a city comes from its unique culture, people, and mood.

No doubt that most European cities look the same, BUT you still know that it is European because of its appearance and character. Remove the Chinese "characters" of the buildings in China, all you get will be neither be West nor East. Where is the 5000 years of Chinese history and culture?

One thing the really striked me the last time I stayed in Shanghai at the Shangrila Hotel. At the reception I met some Chinese and some obviously Japanese staff of the hotel. All of them had a name tag on their uniform. The only difference, shocking and sad difference that it was were the names. All the Japanese staff retained their Japanese names even in Latin transcription (e.g. Ayumi Matsuo or Hiro Yamaha) but all the Chinese staff had an foreign name (e.g. Jeffrey Wang, Tiffany Zhu). What does this tell us about our identity with our culture in comparison with our neighbour with a similar culture? How much self esteem/ self respect do we have when we deal with foreigners?

No doubt that most European cities look the same, BUT you still know that it is European because of its appearance and character. Remove the Chinese "characters" of the buildings in China, all you get will be neither be West nor East. Where is the 5000 years of Chinese history and culture?

One thing the really striked me the last time I stayed in Shanghai at the Shangrila Hotel. At the reception I met some Chinese and some obviously Japanese staff of the hotel. All of them had a name tag on their uniform. The only difference, shocking and sad difference that it was were the names. All the Japanese staff retained their Japanese names even in Latin transcription (e.g. Ayumi Matsuo or Hiro Yamaha) but all the Chinese staff had an foreign name (e.g. Jeffrey Wang, Tiffany Zhu). What does this tell us about our identity with our culture in comparison with our neighbour with a similar culture? How much self esteem/ self respect do we have when we deal with foreigners?

Who says it is bad and who says that Chinese cannot use English name, it is called international connection. That's saving time for solving problems if there's any, and from another hand, it is like people's costumes from around the world, we dress casual most of the time if we are not working in the office(some don't need to wear suits as well even you work for big companies), or on some special occasion. It is like that, China is not the US, there's always differences between each other, at least the race is different, no need to say the food, character and so many aspects, who says Chinese don't have the self-esteem.
Unity in Diversity. :)

^I don't mind diversity, but at what price? Losing your identity, losing your culture? AND, where is your so called diversity, if everyone has to have a foreign/christian name? where is your so called diversity, when every Chinese city just look like a clone, a bad clone that it is, of a pseudo European city?

But you obviously did not understand what I wrote.

my hometown..

No doubt that most European cities look the same, BUT you still know that it is European because of its appearance and character. Remove the Chinese "characters" of the buildings in China, all you get will be neither be West nor East. Where is the 5000 years of Chinese history and culture?
That's because in the past 200 years, Europeans brought much destruction around the world with their imperialistic ways and destroyed many aspects of cultures around the world.

China, specifically, have been plagued with wars and conflicts for over 200 plus years, both internal and external. It wasn't until the 1980's did things start to stablize.

Europe, on the other hand, aside from WWI and WWII, it enjoyed much stability.

One thing the really striked me the last time I stayed in Shanghai at the Shangrila Hotel. At the reception I met some Chinese and some obviously Japanese staff of the hotel. All of them had a name tag on their uniform. The only difference, shocking and sad difference that it was were the names. All the Japanese staff retained their Japanese names even in Latin transcription (e.g. Ayumi Matsuo or Hiro Yamaha) but all the Chinese staff had an foreign name (e.g. Jeffrey Wang, Tiffany Zhu). What does this tell us about our identity with our culture in comparison with our neighbour with a similar culture? How much self esteem/ self respect do we have when we deal with foreigners?
I completely agree with you on that... which is why I always use my Chinese name.

However, I noticed that most American-born Japanese adopt foreign first names too.

Isn't the city hit by a flood few months ago.I remember watching the CCTV news ,down town (picture no.7 and no. 19) was under 4 feet of water.one fellow complain thast his mercedes benz parked underground a high rise was completely lost,in fact all the cars parked underground garage were all written off.

That's because in the past 200 years, Europeans brought much destruction around the world with their imperialistic ways and destroyed many aspects of cultures around the world.

China, specifically, have been plagued with wars and conflicts for over 200 plus years, both internal and external. It wasn't until the 1980's did things start to stablize.

Europe, on the other hand, aside from WWI and WWII, it enjoyed much stability.


I don't think that is the reason why almost all Chinese cities look very similar though. Most of this infrastructure was built in the last decade. Not much to do with the Europeans at all.

China has been much more stable than Europe. Europe has been more wartorn and conflicted than any other continent. (100 years war between England/France....) There was always a little war or conflict between some two countries after 5 years, whereas China assimilated many nations and millions of people together into one nation.

European historic architecture is more durable and practical in the modern world though.

I don't think that is the reason why almost all Chinese cities look very similar though. Most of this infrastructure was built in the last decade. Not much to do with the Europeans at all.
Exactly, most of the buildings in Chinese cities were built in the last decade or two while in Europea, many buildings are 100 years or older.

China has been much more stable than Europe. Europe has been more wartorn and conflicted than any other continent. (100 years war between England/France....) There was always a little war or conflict between some two countries after 5 years, whereas China assimilated many nations and millions of people together into one nation.
We're not talking about ancient history here, just the last 200 or so years. Ever since the Opium War, China has been in a constant state of conflict and chaos. Taiping Rebellion, Boxers Rebellion, invasion of U.S., France, Britian, Germany, Japan, Italiy and several other foreign countries, Chinese civil war... etc. just to name a few. In the mean time, Europe was growing and stable at the expense of rest of the world. It wasn't until WWI and WWII did Europe have some sort of conflict, and even then China was STILL in chaos.

European historic architecture is more durable and practical in the modern world though.
How so.

Oh, I see what you are saying. :)

But it wasn't the European themselves that destroyed the early architecture that made every Chinese city more distinct.


Historical European architecture is largely made of masonary which is longer lasting, does not decay as quickly as wooden materials, and does not require as much upkeep.

The way the interiors are set up are not too much different from the demands of the modern lifestyle. The Chinese courtyard layout with its hierarchy and lack of privacy isn't desired anymore. Or maybe it is, but it not viable given the huge population of China and its inefficiency.

The Queen of England can still live in her centuries old palaces, but I can't imagine the President of China wanting to live in the Forbidden City.

But it wasn't the European themselves that destroyed the early architecture that made every Chinese city more distinct.
Oh no? Yuanming Yuan ring a bell? How about all the buildings the 八国联军 (not sure what the proper name is in English) destroyed when they invaded China?

Of course, many buildings were also destroyed during internal conflicts such Taiping Rebellion, Chinese civil war and even during the Cultural Revolution in the 70's.

Historical European architecture is largely made of masonary which is longer lasting, does not decay as quickly as wooden materials, and does not require as much upkeep.
Good point.

The way the interiors are set up are not too much different from the demands of the modern lifestyle. The Chinese courtyard layout with its hierarchy and lack of privacy isn't desired anymore. Or maybe it is, but it not viable given the huge population of China and its inefficiency.
I agree. However, it is interesting to note that as more and more countries start to "modernize", residential buildings are built closer and closer with all the new high-rise or apartment complexes, privacy is a very important issue. I can't speak for the rest of the world, but here in Houston, almost all newly built apartment complexes, townhomes and even houses have VERY VERY VERY poor sound-proofing system, and these aren't no cheap houses either.

The Queen of England can still live in her centuries old palaces, but I can't imagine the President of China wanting to live in the Forbidden City.
I'm almost certain that the interior of the European palaces have been renovated to fit modern needs... If the same is done to the Forbidden City, I don't see why anyone wouldn't want to live in there (except for having to deal with tourists all day of course lol)

The problem with most Chinese cities is: They all look more or less the same. If you remove the Chinese wirtings you wouldn't know you are in a Chinese city at all.

Too posh, too little character = mediocrity!

Same goes to every city in the world

almost all european cities look same
almost all american cities look same
almost all japanese cities look same
almost all asean cities look same
and almost all 3rd world poor cities look same too,

so what's wrong with Chinese cities look same?! If they are REALLY same.

I can tell most of them from each other. Shanghai from Beijing, Nanjing from Qingdao, Chongqing from Guangzhou.

Same goes to every city in the world

almost all european cities look same
almost all american cities look same
almost all japanese cities look same
almost all asean cities look same
and almost all 3rd world poor cities look same too,

so what's wrong with Chinese cities look same?! If they are REALLY same.

I can tell most of them from each other. Shanghai from Beijing, Nanjing from Qingdao, Chongqing from Guangzhou.
Not all the cities in every country look the same, including China.

In the U.S., there can only be one San Francisco, one New York.

In China, there can only be one Beijing, one Shanghai, one Hong Kong.

There is no way every city in a country can have their own unique appearance. It's simply too costly to satisfy a few SSC members ;)

Oh no? Yuanming Yuan ring a bell? How about all the buildings the 八国联军 (not sure what the proper name is in English) destroyed when they invaded China?

Of course, many buildings were also destroyed during internal conflicts such Taiping Rebellion, Chinese civil war and even during the Cultural Revolution in the 70's.




Yuanming Yuan was the grandest palace in China during that time, but YellowPeril's plight will still exist even if every building destroyed by the Europeans came back.

The Cultural Revolution and the ongoing modernization today is main cause for the lost of truly Chinese architecture that Yellow wants.

Or maybe he wants the buildings built today to have Chinese character and designs :?

Yuanming Yuan was the grandest palace in China during that time, but YellowPeril's plight will still exist even if every building destroyed by the Europeans came back.

The Cultural Revolution and the ongoing modernization today is main cause for the lost of truly Chinese architecture that Yellow wants.

Or maybe he wants the buildings built today to have Chinese character and designs :?
I assumed he meant that there aren't enough historical buildings in Chinese cities today, as opposed to the newly built modern high-rises.

Modern high-rises are all "Westernized". I suppose one could argue that skyscrapers like Jinmao and Taipei 101 are attempts to "Easternize" skyscraper designs as the former is designed after Chinese pagodas and the latter after Chinese bamboo. However, gross majority of modern buildings around the whole world today all have Western design and there's really not much we can do about that as the West dominates the world today.

I suppose skyscrapers and modern architecture feels 'Western' now, because when Asian cities modernize, they are importing something completely foreign to them.

But after awhile, I think skyscrapers will become the standard medium in which all cultures will express their style, Chinese included. It's really the most common sense structure to build at the moment. The skyscraper coming to Italy is just as foreign as the skyscraper coming to China.

I suppose skyscrapers and modern architecture feels 'Western' now, because when Asian cities modernize, they are importing something completely foreign to them.

But after awhile, I think skyscrapers will become the standard medium in which all cultures will express their style, Chinese included. It's really the most common sense structure to build at the moment. The skyscraper coming to Italy is just as foreign as the skyscraper coming to China.
You are right. It's kind of like how when Chinese architecture spread to Japan, Korea, Vietnam and surrounding regions, they were completely foreign, but over time, each region developed their own "sub-style". But overall though, one can still say that those countries were "Sinicized", just as the whole world is being Westernized.

I don't think skyscrapers coming to Italy just as foreign as coming to China. Afterall, Italy is part of the West.

But overall though, one can still say that those countries were "Sinicized", just as the whole world is being Westernized.


hmmm..... true. The whole world is Westernized, perhaps the best we can hope for is a watered-down Westernization in China's future as to not have complete cultural abandonment.

Italy is part of the West. But when they built the first skyscrapers there, I'm sure it was completely bizzare to them or even fought against. Many European cities in Germany, Italy, so on, not too long ago fought against having such a huge eyesore dominating their classical cityscapes.

A Western nation like Greece really doesn't deserve credit for giving us the skyscraper, and they probably see it as American, not Western.

Fujian has changed a lot since the last time I was there. It's so much cleaner and developed. I want to go back again, haha.

wow Fuzhou is really nice now. but i still cant figure out why then, so many illegal immigrants are from Fuzhou

Fuzhou looks pretty nice and mediocrely developed now. but still why do so many people from there still illegally emigrate to the US?

Not everyone is wealthy in Fuzhou, also the illegal immigrants are from all over Fujian province, not just Fuzhou city.

That's because in the past 200 years, Europeans brought much destruction around the world with their imperialistic ways and destroyed many aspects of cultures around the world.

China, specifically, have been plagued with wars and conflicts for over 200 plus years, both internal and external. It wasn't until the 1980's did things start to stablize.

Europe, on the other hand, aside from WWI and WWII, it enjoyed much stability.
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That is completely untrue. My family lived through the infamous Cultural Revolution in China and according to my parents, more historical monuments were destroyed by CHINESE themselves in China between 1949 to 1974 than by foreign imperial power. In fact, all that Shanghai is proud of for its architecture were built by the Europeans, including the famous Xin Tian Di. Without the European architecture and the fusion architecture of Xin Tian Di, Shanghai would have nothing to show. Who is interested in looking at the bland, low-quality, empty highrises that Shanghai built in Pudong?

Same goes to every city in the world

almost all european cities look same
almost all american cities look same
almost all japanese cities look same
almost all asean cities look same
and almost all 3rd world poor cities look same too,

so what's wrong with Chinese cities look same?! If they are REALLY same.

I can tell most of them from each other. Shanghai from Beijing, Nanjing from Qingdao, Chongqing from Guangzhou.


You just haven't traveled enough in Europe, I am afraid to say. Germany, English, Russia, French all have very distinctive architecture that are very easily distinguishable from one another. Beijing of China is also quite unique, and Hangzhou as well. Apart from these two, all other cities are simply imitations of what Chinese think modern architecture should be, and you are right, most Chinese cities look quite the same as those in S.E. Asia and Latin America, if you take people out of the scene, I can hardly tell one from another.

The problem with most Chinese cities is: They all look more or less the same. If you remove the Chinese wirtings you wouldn't know you are in a Chinese city at all.

Too posh, too little character = mediocrity!
As a chinese i am, i totally agree with you.....

That is completely untrue. My family lived through the infamous Cultural Revolution in China and according to my parents, more historical monuments were destroyed by CHINESE themselves in China between 1949 to 1974 than by foreign imperial power.
According to... "your parents"? :sleepy:

I never said no historical monuments were destroyed by Chinese ourselves. Read my post again and you'll notice that I mentioned both external and INTERNAL conflicts and China didn't enjoy stability until AFTER 1980's, which is AFTER the Cultural Revolution...

People simply don't read others' posts before they respond anymore...

In fact, all that Shanghai is proud of for its architecture were built by the Europeans, including the famous Xin Tian Di. Without the European architecture and the fusion architecture of Xin Tian Di, Shanghai would have nothing to show. Who is interested in looking at the bland, low-quality, empty highrises that Shanghai built in Pudong?[/QUOTE]
Not all Shanghairen are proud of the European architecture. Those who are simply have inferiority complex due to colonization.

Has anyone of you been to Lijiang? I'm intending to tour Yunan and Sichuan provinces next year. One of my colleagues just been there, it is an extremely beautiful city according to him, good foods and chinese sake(rice wine), like a shangri-la or kind of. It's also a world heritage city. Some of the few 'undistrubed' remaining beautiful cities in China.
sorry..a bit out of subject here.

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My parents went there this summer. They didn't say too much about it. My dad just talked about the new shiny roads and highways and stuff :lol: :?

It's a Naxi city, one of China's ethnic minorities. The other major intacted historical Chinese city is Pingyao in the Shannxi province.

Has anyone of you been to Lijiang? I'm intending to tour Yunan and Sichuan provinces next year. One of my colleagues just been there, it is an extremely beautiful city according to him, good foods and chinese sake(rice wine), like a shangri-la or kind of. It's also a world heritage city. Some of the few 'undistrubed' remaining beautiful cities in China.
sorry..a bit out of subject here.
I've been to Lijiang, it is indeed a beautiful place.

I've also been to Dali.

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haha lijiang is very beautiful~~

A nice city i have live in there for 20 years haha ～～

That's because in the past 200 years, Europeans brought much destruction around the world with their imperialistic ways and destroyed many aspects of cultures around the world.

China, specifically, have been plagued with wars and conflicts for over 200 plus years, both internal and external. It wasn't until the 1980's did things start to stablize.

Europe, on the other hand, aside from WWI and WWII, it enjoyed much stability.
But WW1 and WW2 completely devastated European cities. Can you imagine how many castles and buildings were destroyed in all the European wars and WW1/WW2?

He still has a point in that Europe is the most conflict ridden continent in the middle ages(this is not ancient history) and its only in around 1820-1900 did they enjoy "relative peace". Yet their culture and architecture survives to even dominate the world in the colonial ages.

You being too far fetched by saying Chinese has lost touch with their architecture because of these conflicts in the last 200 years. Traditional Chinese architecture is certainly still very common for everyone to see even with all the conflicts/unrest in the past.

From all these conflicts and unrest, both Chinese and European architecture has survived intact, not surprisingly. The difference was that one chose to keep producing their architecture, and the other has chosen to ignore their own architecture and be unimaginative(generally, of course there are exceptions).

The main purpose of a city is not to show its distinctive characteristics, but to provide comfortable living condition for the residents.

All modern skyscrapers in the world have no distinctive national characteristics or style. So stop criticizing China.

Fuzhou is my hometown. I am glad that it has changed a lot and many residents can live comfortably now.

The main purpose of a city is not to show its distinctive characteristics, but to provide comfortable living condition for the residents.

All modern skyscrapers in the world have no distinctive national characteristics or style. So stop criticizing China.

Fuzhou is my hometown. I am glad that it has changed a lot and many residents can live comfortably now.

Function without soul is empty. A soul without culture is a lost soul!

Function without soul is empty. A soul without culture is a lost soul!

What is soul all about? An abstract term without precise and concrete definition is meaningless. Do you call the uniform houses without sewage system as the "soul" or "culture" of China?

The reason why the so-called national style is formed in architecture of different countries was
1) There was no design innovation, everybody just copying the style of his neighbors. There were no professional architecture design firms in the past.
2) The availability of construction materials and technology was very limited. This can be observed in the sky scrapers style differences between New York City (many of them were built in 1930s) and Shanghai.

If you really want to ask what Chinese modern architecture style is, I will answer you this way: the current Chinese architecture style is try to use the best available construction design, technology, and materials in the world while taking the consideration of economic factors. To say in another way: the style is no-particular-style or free style.

Style is formed naturally. There is no need to enforce a style. The current "style" of Shanghai is the showcase of world modern architecture in 21st century.

Li Jiang and Da Li should be preserved at all costs, China is loosing its traditional buildings at an alarming pace.

Nice city and those condos look nice how much is the cost of living for Fuzhou for a place as beautiful as Fuzhou and right near the city they look like they are expensive.

some fuzhou pics from kevin
Panoramio上有很多漂亮的照片，全国各地都有。顺便挑几张福州的照片
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Li Jiang and Da Li should be preserved at all costs, China is loosing its traditional buildings at an alarming pace.

My friend ancient and modern arquitecture in some way represents the ways of Chinese arquitecture, althoug ancient is more representative the new designs are made to meet the new China, full of modernism, globalization, etc... I like how the cities in China are becoming futuristic in a way (unlike our cities in Mexico which reflects long gone eras). I would also like to see the ancient buildings in China be preserved as they are.

Fuzhou indeed looks amazing in those pictures above. What is that building in the middle of the river that looks like a castle? It is so gorgeous.

hmmm..... true. The whole world is Westernized, perhaps the best we can hope for is a watered-down Westernization in China's future as to not have complete cultural abandonment.

Italy is part of the West. But when they built the first skyscrapers there, I'm sure it was completely bizzare to them or even fought against. Many European cities in Germany, Italy, so on, not too long ago fought against having such a huge eyesore dominating their classical cityscapes.

A Western nation like Greece really doesn't deserve credit for giving us the skyscraper, and they probably see it as American, not Western.

You are so right. American modern history doesn't date so far back to the 12th century and their buildings generally are built from scratch, just like Australian cities. The skyscraper "term" itself originate in US from their building boom times in the late 19th century.

So, I guess Europe herself is foreign to skyscrapers until it was introduced by the American.

福建大剧院（效果图）Fujian Opera House rendering
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Fujian Opera House has opened.

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WOW
I never thought Fuzhou is like this
it's too amazing
how did it change during past years？？？？

^^ its supposed to be. Fuzhou is located in one of the richest areas of China and original hometown for most early Chinese expats, it's hard not developing at a rapid rate.

Awesome pics! Fujian's cities look awesome! And yeah, the people of Fuzhou are similar to that of Wenzhou. They are hard working, capitalistic and entrepreneurial, so it's no surprise that Fuzhou is so developed.

Fuzhou's annual GDP expected to exceed 300 bln RMB

Updated: 23 Oct 2010

The annual GDP of Fuzhou this year is expected to exceed over 300 billion yuan with the amount per person over $6,000.

On October, 21st, one regular meeting was arranged to publicize the essence of the 17th session of the Fifth National Plenary Meeting. Su Zengtian, the deputy director of Fujian province, gave his remarks on the symposium. He demanded a careful research on the prospect of the development of Fuzhou and indicated that its GDP this year would exceed over 300 billion yuan and the amount per person would be over $6,000.

Meanwhile, Yongtai county in Fuzhou is contributing to build up a city of hot spring, which is sure to inject a cardiac to the local economy. Su suggested that scientific outlook and plan together with arrangement be the mainstream to follow, which are the guarantees of this project. What’s more, the planning of building a city of high-level should be carefully researched before being put into practice.

In the future, according to Su, Fuzhou will be constructed into an ecological metropolitan in the world.

SOURCE: China Daily

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by 榕城三山是故乡, home.news.cn

Fuzhou is the neatious, most organized city I've seen in China. Alot has changed since I visited in 2004. I still really enjoy seeing pictures of Fuzhou though.

Wow, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Fujian cities are very underrated.

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Request: Please change this thread's title to Fuzhou 福州, Fujian Province. Keeping it uniform.